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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 05 2017, @01:36AM   Printer-friendly
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law that will enable pirate mirror, proxy and other derivative sites to be blocked quickly by ISPs. Sites will be approved for blocking by the government and the local telecoms watchdog, and ISPs will be given 24 hours to block all access. Search engines will also be compelled to remove all variants from results.

Source: TorrentFreak


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:31AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:31AM (#535078)

    How are the circumvention efforts going? Are we making headway in preventing anybody from blocking anything? And what about about hiding the physical location of servers? Can we do it? For how long?

    See, instead of stories about censorship and state power, can anybody find stories about the tech needed and being used to get around the damage? Let's do that and rub the state's nose in it. Let's get this arms race going full blast. We are moving way too slowly. Let's render the state powerless. The goal must be unconditional surrender by whatever means possible. We must make the internet open to all. If we don't, the bad guys win.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @08:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @08:15AM (#535102)

    How are the circumvention efforts going?

    There is a limit to circumvention, at least if you want random people to be able to connect, as opposed to a closed invite-only system. If people without previous connections are meant to be able to connect, they need a way to connect that can be openly communicated. But if it can be openly communicated, the state also knows how it is communicated, and can simply block that communication channel.

    The only way this can be avoided is if any feasible way to block the communication channel would do so much collateral damage that it is impossible in practice. What "too much collateral damage" means of course depends on the country.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 05 2017, @12:35PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday July 05 2017, @12:35PM (#535152) Journal

      You do it by communicating openly only at random times for random IP-addresses. And by require people to first join a less privileged social circle where they have to prove their worth to advance to the next more connected circle. Just like people climb the ladder in corporations.